That one was from me. As I understand it doom really is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for destiny and that we have northern mythology and general outlook on life to thank for the fact the word carries the current connotations that it does. Tolkien does have some of his characters use that word as a substitute for destiny in LOTR and given his academic specialty I wouldn’t want to be the one to try telling him he was using it wrong. ^_^

This is used in the current Justice League comic to present the name “the Legion of Doom” as being based on something other than “We’re the bad guys and we know it.” The idea is that Luthor thinks his gang is bringing humanity to its destiny.

I’m still horrified by the way everyone turned on Tuvix. “Yeah, we know you’re a unique sentient being, yadda yadd yadda Prime Directive, but we like our other friends better, so we’re just gonna kill you. Buh-bye”

I’d argue that the Prime Directive was toast either way since the alternative was to consign two lives to the garbage bin instead of just one. If we go with the John Mills “The greatest good for the greatest number thesis then restoring the original two really was the right thing. @_@

Well she might actually be not even wrong – it’s well known that every new piece of hardware that hackers (in the “maker” sense) get their hands on gets Doom ported to it first thing. So I wouldn’t be surprised at all if there would be an actual copy of Doom running in some corner of this place… :)))

Wait, what? [searches Delphi+bee] “The Delphic priestess is often referred to as a bee, and Pindar notes that she remained “the Delphic bee” long after Apollo had usurped the ancient oracle and shrine.” I did not know that.